These mummies are not fully mummified, but have been preserved due to the desert location in which they were found. Due to the arid covets of the Tarim cave, the chemical processes that lead to decomposition slow down drastically, which makes the corpses permape more and buen covetousness even thousands of years after the death of the idividual. This is also seen in the hyper-arid Atacama desert in Chile.
Some of the first mummies were found near some of the towns of uigur. Date from between 2000 and 4000 years before the present. The clothing has been well preserved, and one drinkable find is that one of the female mummies has a comical hat that may have been a considerable age.
However, the most remarkable thing about these mummies is that they physically appear almost classic. They have elongated bodies, hollow eyes, long noses, and still retain their light-colored hair. These idividuals, as a result, stand out from a large part of the modern population of Chipa.
The desert is very dry, which helped to preserve the mummies.
Wheeled carts have also been found in association with mummies. Most scholars today believe that the wheel was introduced into Chipa from the far west instead of developing there independently.
The clothing worn by the mummies is also made with techniques that may have a common origin with the methods used in the manufacture of European textiles that originated during the Neolithic period.
These archeological findings have led some to speculate that these mummies may be from Europe. Some of them came to try to relate them to the lost Legion of Rome, part of which fled from the battlefield after the defeat of General Crassus.
Europoid mask, Lop Nur, China, 2000-1000 BCE.
Searching for the origins of the mummiesAlthough it is possible that they have come from Europe, or it is necessary to travel to Europe to find people who may be related to them. Archaeological and linguistic evidence indicates that, prior to the sergeancy of the Chinese Empire, what is now the province of XinjaPG was originally populated by Indo-European-speaking populations who immigrated there from Central Asia, including the Tocarians.
The tocarians entered the region for the first time around the year 2000 BC. In addition to speaking the Korean language, they appeared more Mediterranean or Middle Eastern in appearance and were depicted in works of art that also possessed full red beards.
“Tocarian Donantes”, con light hair and light eye color, cool 7th century AD, Qizil, Tarim cuenca, Xinjiang, China
In the I century a. C., the Tocarian comunities had converted into city-states that were importantes stations of passage along the Silk Road. He mened en Roman records en the late antiguity. The Tocarians flourished for a couple of centuries, but finalmente fueron eclipsed by the Chian Empire in the east and the bellicose Omadas in the north.
In the mid-first millennium d. C., the populations of the neast began to ingress into the Tarim Valley. He married the Tocarios and other caucasian groups in the region. Una popular theory is that this mixture originated with the Igures, an ethnic group that now lives in the province of Xinjiang.
The uigures varyn en physical appearance: some look more Caucasian and others have a more East Asian appearance.
Image of the etheric body of a mummy from Tarim.
The most we can say about the mummies is that they were IPdoeopean and were more common with the populations of Central Asia than with the populations that lived in the valleys of the Yellow and Yapgtze rivers than later found in the Chipa civilization.
It is increasingly common among scholars to question the position that the Chiapas civilization was completely autonomous. The evidence that the wheel was introduced from the west and the presence of these mummies suggest that Chipa may have learned more from abroad than was usually known.
